Karon Fountain Olsen Davis ’59, ’60 sent the Arches team this update: “I just read the [new issue] and noted there were no Class Notes prior to 1970! I just wanted to let you know that some of us from the 1950s and 1960s are still around. Personally, I have been widowed twice and now split my time between Renton, Wash., and Surprise, Ariz. I still stay in touch with and sometimes get together for lunch with a diminishing number of my Alpha Phi sisters from CPS/UPS! Those still in the area (as far as I know) are LaVonne Eggert Johnson ’57, Helen Lahti Edmonds ’59, Lauretta Thorne Scrafford ’59, Barbara Faylor Swenson ’60, Elaine Johnson Michel ’60, Barbara Keevil Parker ’60, and myself. I have many fond memories of my years at CPS!”
Robert L. Stovall ’62 spent more than 48 years in the United States Air Force — in active duty, civil service, and as a consultant. His assignments included supporting space radiation hazards related to the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo manned space programs. He also had assignments in radiochemistry, a joint Air Force, Army, and Israeli anti-armor testing program. He said travel during this 20-year program took him to Israel, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, and his final test program supported the United States Navy and the Pentagon’s Live Fire test program.
The Northwest Progressive Institute honored Rosa Franklin ’68, Hon.’06 with the Lynn Allen Award at its spring gala in April. Franklin broke barriers when she became the first Black woman to be sworn in as a member of the Washington State Senate in 1993. Prior to her 20-year legislative career, Franklin worked in healthcare, serving as a nurse during World War II before moving to Tacoma and earning her bachelor’s degree from Puget Sound.
Cheryl Hart Volheim ’68 was profiled in the Federal Way Mirror in January about her work as a founding member of the Federal Way Senior Commission.
Karen Robbins MEd’71 received a silver award from the Independent Book Publishers Association for her picture book I Love You More Than Candy Pops. She has also recently published I Can Count and Shoe Print Art (which was illustrated by fellow Logger and Tri-Delt sister Sally Raymond Marts ’67). Her books can be found in the Logger Store and wherever else books are sold. “I’m so grateful to Puget Sound for obtaining my MEd,” she tells Arches. “I never planned to be an author and have had an amazing life creating for kids. It’s my passion, purpose, ministry, and legacy.”
Yolanda Chew Griffiths ’76, professor of occupational therapy and former program director, concluded eight years of service at Drake University’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in May. She has been in the OT profession for 47 years.
Jacalyn Bower Kreitzer ’77 told the and Parent Relations team that, after graduation and a couple of years in Anchorage, Alaska, she moved to Los Angeles, studied with Herta Glaz, Leonard Stein, and Erich Leinsdorf, earned a master’s degree in voice performance from the University of Southern California, then went on to have a 45-year career as mezzo-soprano soloist with opera and symphony orchestras across the U.S. and Europe. She writes: “I retired from the career and 24 years of teaching voice, developing a vocal performance curriculum and producing opera at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and moved to Bend, Ore., where I now teach a little, am an adjudicator for festivals, and fly fish!”
Janet Stanton Barnes ’82 retired in March 2025 after 27 years working as an echocardiographer (cardiac ultrasound) at Tacoma General Hospital, St. Luke’s Hospital in Boise, and Seattle Children’s regional clinics in central Washington. Stanton says: “I will continue with my avocation — playing the French horn in the Yakima Valley Community Band and ringing in our church bell choir. My parents, Ed Stanton ’50 and Blythe Callahan Stanton ’51, will be celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary this August in Des Moines, Wash.”
Kathleen McCarthy Duncan ’82 received an honorary doctorate at the University of Idaho’s commencement exercises in May.
Bonnie Napier ’82 told Arches that after seven years in clinical OT practice, she went on to become a professor and taught at Samuel Merritt University and the Dominican University of California. She is the author of The Fieldwork Survival Guide, an OT textbook that will have its third edition published in the summer of 2026 by the American Occupational Therapy Association.
Richard E. Asche MBA’84 retired from the U.S. Navy in Bremerton in September 1979, and soon after he and his wife Helen founded the Bremerton-Kitsap Airporter, which served Kitsap and Pierce counties and SeaTac International Airport. Soon their operations will be extended to include service locations in Lacey, Dupont, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, and perhaps Lakewood. The Kitsap Airporter has carried more than 4.7 million passengers since its founding. Asche says their goal is to exceed the population of Washington state and writes: “Thank you, Puget Sound, as I have applied your daily teachings in the operations of the Kitsap Airporter! Well done!”
Tim Gould ’84 started as the CFO for Amara Family Services in April. He says his passion is for serving foster youth and families in the greater Puget Sound area. Before joining Amara, he ran a CFO consulting business for three years and served as CFO/VP of finance for a variety of non-profit organizations from South Seattle to Everett.
“I am spending my retirement happily writing and editing fiction,” Karen Meyer Eisenbrey ’85 writes the Arches team. “In April, I welcomed my seventh published novel, A Quest for Hidden Things. I am also excited to have short stories in three different anthologies being released this spring and summer: DOSA Files Volume III, What If We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire’s Yacht?, and Twists on Time. On the summer solstice, I plan to spend all day drafting a new novel while raising funds for the Alzheimer’s Association.”
Ubilite, a semiconductor company based in San Diego, appointed George Holmes ’85 as its CEO in April. He had previously served as chair and CEO of Resonant, Inc. and brings 40 years of experience to his new role.
Kathleen Piilani Schwartze (Ka’au’a) ’85 sent the Arches team this update: “I have graduated with a master’s degree in Indigenous education in the native Hawaiian track from Arizona State University. It was a labor of love for my culture. Not everyone starts a master’s degree at age 60— but it’s never too late. Quoting Phil Phibbs: ‘Education for a lifetime.’”
Cynthia Nims ’86 was featured in a Seattle Times Sunday Magazine article in May about the collection of her mom’s recipes and what they mean to her and her family.
Elizabeth Roberts ’87, ’90, told the Arches team that she retired in 2023 after 33 years of public-school teaching in Kitsap County and now loves working part-time for her local public library. Her spouse Brian Watson MAT’95 continues to run his two businesses: Watson Studios, designing and creating art for individuals and liturgical settings; and Bicycle Teacher, his bicycling education business. She writes: “He loves helping people of all ages learn to be the ‘boss of their bikes!’”
This summer, Julie Hornick ’88 published a co-edited volume, Critical Information Literacy Applications for All Libraries. Hornick is currently head of library instruction at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Fla., where she lives with her husband Dennis Williams and their cat, Barnaby.
Scott Eagan ’89 teaches middle school humanities in the Bethel School District and works as the owner and acquiring agent of Greyhaus Literary Agency, which represents romance and women’s fiction. He also teaches developmental editing, marketing and PR, and networking for authors and agents with the UCLA Extension Program, and he recently released his third book, Navigating the Submission Process, which guides new authors toward their careers as published authors.
Carolyn Kaltenbach Keurajian ’89 is the new executive director of the Charlottesville Symphony. She had previously served as president and CEO of the Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra in Virginia. Her career includes work in arts education, event production, marketing, and corporate sales. She is a speaker on arts management and is a guest lecturer at the College of William and Mary.
Greg Milosevich ’89 was appointed executive vice president of Danaher Corporation in July, with responsibility for its life sciences business. He joined Danaher in 2010.
Phillip Franck ’90 retired from his role as theater department faculty at Vanderbilt University in May. He was named professor emeritus at the university’s commencement exercises that month.
Brenda Longfellow ’94, the Roger A. Hornsby Professor in the Classics in the University of Iowa’s School of Art, Art History, and Design, recently published The Lives and Deaths of Women in Ancient Pompeii. In it, Longfellow explores how historical women of all social backgrounds acted in public and exerted agency on behalf of themselves and others, ultimately finding that female initiatives in Pompeii were not only accepted but desired by the community to a greater extent than has previously been recognized.
In July, Peggy Hannon ’95 was named the first recipient of the Harris-Wasserheit Endowed Professorship in Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington. She has been a faculty member in the School of Public Health since 2008.
In June, the 20th anniversary of the planned community of Seabrook, developed by Casey Roloff ’95 and Laura Roloff ’97, was featured in a cover story in Pacific NW Magazine. In the article, the Roloffs recount their journey from building their first house to today’s sprawling town, and emphasize the need for walkable developments that encourage community-building.
Jonathan Wolfer ’95 is president of the Colorado Association of Elementary School Principals for 2025–26. He is principal at Douglass Elementary School in Boulder, Colo., and he will represent elementary school leaders in advocacy at the state legislature and with U.S. representatives.
Erin Hennessey Guinup ’96, a composer, conductor, and arts consultant, is the new director of Puget Sound Singers. As the founding executive and artistic director of the Tacoma Refugee Choir, she led singers from 75 countries in performances for more than 50,000 people. Her compositions have been performed at national conferences, on PBS, by Symphony Tacoma, and more.
Kent Craford ’98 is the CEO of SeaPort Airlines, a family-owned aviation company which launched daily commuter flights between Portland and Seattle in May. Craford co-founded the original SeaPort Airlines in 2008, but departed the company in 2009 after a falling out with the primary investor. In 2011, he and two partners acquired Alaska Seaplanes and grew it into the primary regional airline of Southeast Alaska, which today with sister companies employs more than 300 people and operates two dozen aircraft.
Josh McDonald ’02 was named 2025 Wine Industry Champion by the Auction of Washington Wines in June. McDonald is executive director of the Washington Wine Institute. The institute is the vocal, active, visible advocate and champion of the Washington wine industry in Olympia and Washington, D.C.
Sydne Record ’03 was promoted to full professor at the University of Maine in April. She is a professor of landscape conservation who joined the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology at the University of Maine in 2022. Earlier in her career, she was associate provost and associate professor of quantitative ecology at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.
Logan Dancey ’04, associate professor of government at Wesleyan University, received one of three excellence in teaching awards in May.
Andrew Miller ’04, MAT’05, who spent two years working in Washington state, tells the Arches team that he has ventured abroad once more to serve as academic principal at Beijing International Bilingual Academy.
Cloudwick, which provides data, automation, and AI solutions for public sector and enterprise organizations, appointed Natasha Nicolai ’04 DPT’06 as its new Chief Technology Officer in May. Nicolai had previously worked for Amazon Web Services and is experienced in driving data modernization and cloud best practices across public sector agencies.
Sarah Laub Skubas ’04 has been appointed vice chair of the American Health Law Association’s Labor and Employment Practice Group. Skubas is a principal in Jackson Lewis’ Hartford office and co-leader of the firm’s healthcare industry group. She represents employers in all areas of employment law, including leave and disability issues, discrimination, internal investigations, and workplace issues related to marijuana.
Lorna Shanks ’05, owner and operator of Shanks Primary Care, was featured in an article in The Oregonian in June. The article highlights a growing trend among physicians who are opting out of the traditional insurance model in favor of a more accessible, transparent approach to healthcare.
William Baur ’06 was recognized by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) in Washington State as a state finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
The Ladies Musical Club of Seattle premiered Colleen Thomas Fraser’s ’06 “String Quartet No. 1” as well as a vocal quartet, “The Taxi” in April at the University House in Seattle.
Emily MacPherson Kolby ’06 completed a Ph.D. in adult and higher education in 2024 at Oregon State University and earned the program’s Dissertation of the Year Award. She now works at the University of Washington as the director of curriculum and engagement in first-year programs and says she often reflects on the support and guidance she received at Puget Sound. “I chose to pursue a career in higher education thanks to my involvement on campus, work as a resident assistant, and connections with faculty, staff, and fellow students,” she said.
Jessica Stella ’08, MAT’10, (known as Jessica McPhee-Hayes during her student days) completed her principal certification at Pacific Lutheran University. She will serve as an assistant principal at Gates Alternative High School in the Franklin Pierce School District and is starting work on her Doctor of Education in educational leadership degree.
Becca Bryant ’10 has been named the board president for HomeSight, an organization that works to preserve and promote economically and culturally diverse communities. She says “I knew I wanted to volunteer with an organization from the 9th Congressional District to put my decade of Capitol Hill experience to work on behalf of the community that had given so much to me. HomeSight was the obvious choice!”
Joan Ilacqua ’10 led a discussion at All She Wrote Books in June with author Sarah Schulman. She is the executive director of The History Project, Boston’s queer community archives and has dedicated her career to centering marginalized community histories through collecting oral history interviews, preserving archival records, and sharing queer stories.
Vienna Saccomanno ’13, a senior scientist at the Nature Conservancy, reports that her team was among the 24 recipients of the Bezos Earth Fund’s AI Grand Challenge for Climate and Nature this year. She says: “This grant is more than funding — it’s a vote of confidence in our vision: that technology, when thoughtfully applied, can be a force for good in the fight for a more sustainable future.”
In April, Nicolette Andres ’15 released her debut album, titled Hands. She has studied violin throughout her life, and began studying hardanger fiddle (hardingfele) in 2020. She received an instrument to loan through the Hardanger Fiddle Association of America, and then went to Norway to purchase her own. Her good friend and fellow Logger Reilly Rosbotham ’15 did the album artwork. She tells Arches: “While at Puget Sound I studied violin with Dr. Maria Sampen. I am thrilled to have completed my first album project, and I feel a lot of gratitude for my time at Puget Sound and all that I learned that helped make this dream more achievable.”
Slay Latham ’18 wrote an op-ed in The Bay Area Reporter about the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, when queer and transgender patrons of a San Francisco late-night eatery fought back against police harassment. Latham learned about this little-known chapter of LGBTQIA+ history in an Intro to Gender, Feminist, and Queer Studies class at Puget Sound and argues that the site should be rezoned as a community space.
Sage Bryson ’22 is a Ph.D. student and researcher at the University of Vermont who is studying civil engineering. They told Arches that they published their first book in January 2025 and married Elliot Stevenson ’22 this summer.
William Lum ’23, who has been developing his career as a professional musician in Texas, completed a master’s degree in euphonium performance at the University of North Texas. He says he spends most of his time freelancing as a private music instructor, master class clinician, and solo contest adjudicator at various schools across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, and has recently been appointed adjunct instructor of tuba and euphonium at Dallas College.